Course Overview
VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administrator and Troubleshooting is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration & VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Troubleshooting. This training collection gives you the skills to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. This course builds your skills in installing and configuring VMware Horizon® through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™, VMware Unified Access Gateway™, how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.
Also, this course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to troubleshoot VMware Horizon 8 infrastructure. This workshop teaches the required skill and competence for troubleshooting Horizon Connection Server, Unified Access Gateway, protocols, connections, and certificates.
This course provides a challenge lab designed to present participants with infrastructure issues that may arise in actual Horizon environments. The lab objective is to put into practice the contents covered during the training to create a working environment.
Requirements
- VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
- a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system
- Attendees should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience: Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
- user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
- Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
- an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
Target audiences
- Tier 1 system administrators, and integrators responsible for managing and maintaining VMware Horizon Infrastructure.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 15 Lessons
- 5 Days
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- Topics15
- 1.11 Course Introduction and course logistics objectives
- 1.22 Horizon Connection Server VMware Horizon reference architecture the supported features of Horizon Connection Server the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection Server the VMware Horizon event database the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server the AD Lightweight Directory Service (LDS) database as a critical component of Horizon Connection Server installation
- 1.33 Authentication and Certificates the authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports the smart card authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports the steps to create a VMware Horizon administrator and custom roles the roles available in a VMware Horizon environment the role that certificates play for Horizon Connection Server and configure certificates for Horizon Connection Server and configure True SSO in a VMware Horizon environment
- 1.44 Workspace ONE Access and Virtual Application Management the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access the features of the Workspace ONE Access console identity management in Workspace ONE Access access management in Workspace ONE Access the Workspace ONE Access directory integration virtual applications with Workspace ONE services
- 1.55 Horizon Protocols the remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon Blast the Blast display protocol codecs the Blast codec options the ideal applications for each Blast codec Blast and PCoIP ADMX GPO common configurations
- 1.66 Graphics Cards the 3D rendering options available in Vmware Horizon vSGA and vDGA the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a VMware Horizon environment
- 1.77 Horizon Scalability the purpose of a replica connection server how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a VMware Horizon environment a load balancer for use in a VMware Horizon environment Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options
- 1.88 Horizon Security concepts relevant to secure VMware Horizon connections how to restrict VMware Horizon connections the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway the Unified Access Gateway firewall rules the situations in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway instances with one, two, or three network interfaces
- 1.99 Troubleshooting Horizon Connection Server the general troubleshooting techniques for Horizon Connection Server how to use logs to identify common Horizon Connection Server problems AD LDS replication common Horizon Connection Server replication issues how to interpret Horizon Connection Server logs successful and unsuccessful logs from common infrastructure administration tasks
- 1.1010 Troubleshooting Unified Access Gateway common Unified Access Gateway deployment issues how to monitor the health of a Unified Access Gateway deployment and troubleshoot Unified Access Gateway certificate issues how to monitor, test, and troubleshoot network errors using tcpdump and curl the general Unified Access Gateway troubleshooting methods
- 1.1111 Blast Configuration Blast codecs and Encoder Switch settings how to verify BLAST configuration using logs and settings
- 1.1212 Optimizing Blast general Blast optimization recommendations Blast tuning recommendations that apply to WAN connections Blast tuning recommendations that apply to work-from-home and home-office-to-cloud use cases the recommended tuning options to increase display protocol quality for all use cases and applications
- 1.1313 Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Connections VMware Horizon connections the role of primary and secondary protocols in VMware Horizon connections HTML client access connections Horizon Connections load balancing timeout settings, supported health monitoring strings, and suitable load balancer persistence values the troubleshooting steps for failing VMware Horizon load balancer connections the steps for troubleshooting VMware Horizon connections
- 1.1414 Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Certificates the functions of VMware Horizon certificates VMware Horizon certificate scenarios potential challenges related to certificates in VMware Horizon the troubleshooting approach to VMware Horizon certificates issues
- 1.1515 Cloud Pod Architecture Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios
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